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Afghan students struggle
Just two of 62 Afghan student pilots have successfully graduated as helicopter pilots.
Gary Parsons - 6-Dec-2010
December 6: The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan (NTM-A) has admitted that just two Afghan student pilots from an initial batch of 62 successfully graduated as helicopter pilots after training in the US over the last 16 months.
First Lieutenants Abdul Saboor Amin and Ahmad Fawad Haidari became the first two Afghan Air Force (AAF) helicopter pilots and have begun conversion training onto the Mil-17 at Kabul in Afghanistan with the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing.
Initial training of the 62 students was carried out at San Antonio in Texas and Fort.Rucker in Alabama. A lack of proficiency in English was the main factor in the failure rate, despite a six-month language course at the Defense Language Institute English Language Center, said the NTM-A release.
Afghan students struggle
Just two of 62 Afghan student pilots have successfully graduated as helicopter pilots.
Gary Parsons - 6-Dec-2010
December 6: The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan (NTM-A) has admitted that just two Afghan student pilots from an initial batch of 62 successfully graduated as helicopter pilots after training in the US over the last 16 months.
First Lieutenants Abdul Saboor Amin and Ahmad Fawad Haidari became the first two Afghan Air Force (AAF) helicopter pilots and have begun conversion training onto the Mil-17 at Kabul in Afghanistan with the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing.
Initial training of the 62 students was carried out at San Antonio in Texas and Fort.Rucker in Alabama. A lack of proficiency in English was the main factor in the failure rate, despite a six-month language course at the Defense Language Institute English Language Center, said the NTM-A release.
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